Highlights from the Lilly Library collection of political cartoons. Colony and Early Republic, 1765-1798; War of 1812; Abraham Lincoln, 1860-1865America in Caricature

Baldy Editorial Cartoons, 1946-1982, 1997:

Civil Rights, Cold War, Vietnam

Clifford H. Baldowski, known by the pen-name "Baldy," depicted the local, national, and international news of his day in the editorial pages of the Augusta Chronicle, Miami Herald, and Atlanta Constitution. His work is a rich source for those studying political reorganization in Georgia and the growth of Atlanta as well as the Civil Rights Movement, the Cold War, the Vietnam conflict, Middle East tensions, and Watergate.

His
cartoons popularized the elephant to symbolize the Republican Party and the donkey as the symbol for the Democratic Party.
He created the "modern" image of Santa Claus.
He was the most influential cartoonist of his time.

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